FRENCH oe OF ENGRAVING. 
ael, ira ar 1656, but 
itis little more thana 
\erde A portrait of Raphael is prefixed to the .vo- 
Tu 
‘Seat s fummary of the talents of a artift is as follows : 
“ _ works are a performed with the graver, without 
any other affiftance. ‘The mechan be on of his engraving 
is vod aad raed ‘the effe@ fat and unharmoni zed, and the 
drawing of the naked parts of 7 figures is frequently in- 
malig and heavy, more efpecially the extremities. His works 
number very confider a ay eae to upward of 
two Tnundsed Piney fic ss .’ According to Huber 
they are muc and many o of them are 
marked ah his eis ‘for a the reader is referred to 
our sa of the monograms, &c.of the French {chool of 
"Fhe fo following are fome of the hiftorical pieces executed 
by Daret from ‘different matters, and are all of the folio 
ize. 
. Jonn feated in the Defert, with a Lamb on his 
«© The Madonna fuckling the In- 
Anni bal Caracci. «6 St Peter delivered 
alarge upright. « 
cclo. ‘This piece appears 
en 6 cA Holy Family, in whic his 
introduced an Angel See Fruit to the Infant Jefus,’’ 
from S. Vou ‘A dead Chritt ——S over by holy 
Women,” ae the fame. “ St. Jer 
fert, writing,” from ee ea a Pal] ength figure. 
ss Thetis requefting Arms for Achilles,’’ ia the fame. 
ame 
or 
with Five Infants,’’ from the ¢ 'The 
“6 Charity, 
Vifita a or meeting of the Virgin Mary and St. ‘Eliz Za- 
beth,”’ m M. Corneille the father. « 'T'he Virgin feated 
with a “Infant Jefus,’? from the of Jac Sarazin. 
Upwards of a hundred {mall eet a rawork entitled « ; 
in 
odtrine des Meeurs,’’. publi 
Charles L., ge of 
Tos Aiud VILL. 
» prince of Condé, firft 
Great Britain. is of Bou rbon 
of Were 
renne. 
» queer Anne, with: the two princes on the 
throne, oe the Hiftory of Mezeray. Marguerite.Gafton, 
duchefs of Orleans, 1652. Louis le Fevre de Caumartin, 
— of France. Liadiflaus IV., king of Poland, en- 
graven in 1645. 
Louis  Boullongne, the father, was a native of Bieady, and 
born in 1610. After paffing fome years in Italy,, he return- 
ed to Francs, and fettled in Paris, where he died in the year 
1674, having for fom 
French — sey 
own picture a the Miracle of . St. 
pe his 
» and the ‘Decolaton, of that Apoftle at 
ae executed a 
1717, was the elder. 
Ww 
he difplayed confiderable pare he however aaenty: five i 
as 
fa ed al helt 
d 
von eae of that from. the pen of - 
e time enjoyed the reputation of being. 
an excellent artift, and the honour of being profeffor to the. 
at Rome, after es he ibaa ge to oe where he 
Car An. 
1 rafter rs 
mc ne ees 1 his produétions, but particularly. his: 
Refurretion of Lazarus, are ftampe d with a grand ch 
racter. 
n Bou ullongne engraved feveral aa of -his own com-- 
Sonn. among whic ya ‘amily,’’ in folio. 
“St. . hn np reaching i in the Defert,” a large e upright. “St, 
Brun Land{cape,”’ andits s companion, bothin folio. 
T ee frontpiece to an almanack, engraven in 1694 3 and, 
a fatire againft the author o Mer: rcure-galant, who 
ufed himfelf at ng expence of painters: beneath are 
the follov wing words : “ Ah ha, galant vous raifonnez en ig-- 
norant.’ 
Louis Boullongne, ey younger brother 
was born at Paris A.D. 1654 
ee 
he Ty hi 
hat thofe aids w vores were serie in ne ee 
of the Gobelins. On his return from tal 
death of Ant. Coypel he was no ks ps aaaed to 
the king, and chevalier of the order of St Mich 
e etched the following ‘plates, which, though: fpirited 
and free, are not correCtly drawn. “ A Holy Family,” 
in gto. in which pao rage Jefus i is ee a bird in his 
hand. Another “* Holy Family.’ « A Chrift, fur- 
rounded by Saints, Women, ei his Di ciples,” in: fli ; 
“The Martyrdom of St. Peter,” an upright, in dlio. 
“ The Martyrdom of St 
“ The es of St. Andrew,”’ from Paul Veronefe, 
in folio t. Bruno,”’ in folio. ‘A Roman Charity,’ , 
folio 
Abraham Boffe was born at Tours A.D. 1610, and. 
died at Paris j in 1678. Befide his ieee 35 which amount 
(recoreing ae ‘of wi to fom | hundred in cng athe and 
rt) 
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mproved edition, and of which vei is an Englifh -tr anfla~ 
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Under what falter he ftudied, his biographers have not 
mentioned. _ In the ftyle of his A engraving si he a eis. 
dent imitator of the. coarfer manner d. for 
the moft part ae ne the hard oak, ‘Gor which fea. 
the article Ercurne,) which that artift invented. 
safle w with -a certain oe of fpixit, but tiie 
with fpirit ia with truth, and finifhed his = by. par-. 
tially re-entering -the..corroded lines with the : but 
his practice, as. well as his theary, was fettered | jis a: ite. 
